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Using Micromondi, the children in the school which I have just left had carried out an activity based on two stories from "Le cittą invisibili" by Calvino: Ottavia and Tamara. The poster produced through group work will serve as a bridge between the two schools, the two classes and "Le cittą invisibili".

Linda and her children wrote us a letter in which they asked to continue playing with us and proposed making a poster together so that we could get to know each other. Each school would do half and then it would all be put together, including photographs.

The organization was shared with the children. From time to time letters were read out in which each side reported their impressions of the work that they were carrying out.
In practice it involved creating a single poster, from two 60 x 40 sheets, based on the theme: "What do you imagine if I say Invisible Cities?"

Each class started with discussion groups on the proposed theme. The children's answers were recorded and transcribed by the teachers and then exchanged between the two schools first by traditional post and then by e-mail.

The children used a variety of techniques to produce the poster: pencils, waterpaints and the superimposing of images and drawings carried out on the computer (using Paint).

In each of the two classes the children were divided into groups to:

  • create the part of the drawing delegated to their school;
  • choose and attach images and drawings on their portion of the sheet;
  • verbalize and dictate messages to the teachers.

The production of the poster lasted from September to November. But naturally contacts will go on, wind and balloons permitting, and who knows what may happen!